About 36 police at the scientific and forensic department have undergone a two-week training course at the Judicial Police Training Centre in Yaounde to boost their techniques in this discipline.

The 19th batch of the scientific police technicians drawn from the ten Gendarmerie legions and special forensic units were trained by experts from the Criminal Identification Centre in Toulon France within the Framework of France Cameroon military cooperation.

The director of the Judicial Police Training Centre indicated that the training was principally practical comprising field trips to crime scenes, laboratories and hospitals to identify the smallest traces left behind by a criminal from blood samples to finger prints.

He urged hierarchy to equip each of the technicians with a technical and scientific police tools box which is the main working tool they need to improve their efficiency and accuracy in criminal identification.

The Central Director of Administration and Logistics, Major General Laurent Angouand who presided over the end of course ceremony on behalf of the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense in charge of the National Gendarmerie, said the training sought to improve capacity and efficiency of officers in the search, identification and analyses left behind in crime scenes in order ease the decision of magistrates in rendering justice.